Set in late 70's, very early 80's this is more an atmospheric mystery than a whodunnit mystery. Kate Fansler comes to the rescue of the first tenured English Literature woman professor at Havard when she finds herself involve in a scandal. Was she set up? Professor Mandelbaum can't really defend her...
[These notes were made in 1982:]. Yet another in the rash of academic - in fact "English department" - novels I've come across lately; they seem to be forming a whole genre on their own, as more and more writers attach themselves to universities for support (or is it as more and more university peop...
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